[poky] Is sstate broken

[Zhai, Edwin]

Gary Thomas wrote:
>
> On 02/27/2011 11:07 PM, Zhai, Edwin wrote:
> > Gary,
> >
> > Thanks for trying this.
> > sstate function is a little bit fragile recently. I'll look at it 
> after fixing some other bugs.
>
> Any progress on this?
>
> Should I file this as a bug?
>

We have one http://bugzilla.pokylinux.org/show_bug.cgi?id=788


> > Gary Thomas wrote:
> >>
> >> I tried to run an experiment with SSTATE_MIRRORS on the latest master.
> >> From what I can tell, this is 100% not working, although I may just
> >> not have set it up properly. Here's what I did:
> >>
> >> * Build Poky for my platform in /local/xyz_ppc_poky
> >> * Set up to build exact same machine/config/etc in /local/xyz_test
> >> pointing SSTATE_MIRRORS at /local/xyz_ppc_poky/sstate-cache by
> >> adding these lines to local.conf (only configuration change)
> >> SSTATE_MIRRORS ?= "\
> >> file://.* file:///local/xyz_ppc_poky/sstate-cache/"
> >>
> >> The end result is that both builds built (from scratch) the same
> >> set of packages. There seems to be no reuse of anything from
> >> the SSTATE_MIRRORS.
> >>
> >> $ du /local/xyz_ppc_poky/* -s
> >> 20 /local/xyz_ppc_poky/conf
> >> 1456 /local/xyz_ppc_poky/downloads
> >> 4 /local/xyz_ppc_poky/pseudodone
> >> 1010392 /local/xyz_ppc_poky/sstate-cache
> >> 14434076 /local/xyz_ppc_poky/tmp
> >>
> >> $ du -s /local/xyz_test
> >> 20 /local/xyz_test/conf
> >> 1456 /local/xyz_test/downloads
> >> 4 /local/xyz_test/pseudodone
> >> 1010276 /local/xyz_test/sstate-cache
> >> 14425860 /local/xyz_test/ tmp
> >>
> >> The full build log of the second run is at 
> http://www.mlbassoc.com/poky/build_ppc_with_sstate
> >> Notice the many lines which say that a particular step failed. I 
> can't see the reason, nor
> >> can I find any corresponding log file to help me out. An example is:
> >> ERROR: Task 0 
> (virtual:native:/home/local/poky-amltd/meta/recipes-devtools/pseudo/pseudo_1.0.bb, 
> do_unpack) failed with exit code '1'
>
> >>
> >> Am I missing something? Now that the build with BB_NO_NETWORK is 
> working well,
> >> this is my last hurdle to making Poky truly useful for my customers.
> >>
> >> Thanks
> >>
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